Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, it has occasional relapses. People make oblique references to the Lieutenant's heroic conduct at the "Canal" and about the guy "he pulled out of the drink at Tarawa." But the Lieutenant is too tough to own up to these exploits; in addition, he has a case of psychological migraine which would put a lesser man back in street clothes. The Lieutenant is the hero, and there is not a man in the audience who would not be proud to serve under...
...Aerial Blue. Along the stages of the Allied road to victory lay the Normandy beaches, the high, frowning bluffs of Monte Cassino, the coral reefs of Tarawa, the aerial blue over the sea approaches to Japan, with the Kamikazes coming in. Picture History has gathered in the look of it all. There are individual faces, too-sometimes composed, more often starkly candid-of the men of all armies and all ranks. There is the home front, with its crucibles and assembly lines, its boom towns and bond drives...
...even Harry Truman could say such things-and in writing-could think of nothing to do at the moment but cluck, "Shocking" . . . "Unfortunate." Iowa's Hickenlooper, when he got his breath, declaimed: "I know that the spirits of heroes from the Halls of Montezuma, from Chateau-Thierry and Tarawa . . . will be aroused...
...Emergency Turn 9." In 1943, with the training program running like a watch, Radford persuaded his superiors to send him to sea, fought his first major action as commander of a carrier group in the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts (Tarawa-Makin). He had a prescient hunch that the Jap carriers, fed up with heavy daytime losses, would launch an attack at night. With Lieut. Commander Edward H. ("Butch") O'Hare, famed Congressional Medal winner, Radford worked out a radar-equipped night fighter system. When -sure enough-Jap torpedo planes were reported approaching after dusk, O'Hare took...
...Sherrod, now military correspondent in TIME'S Washington bureau, went ashore with U.S. troops at Attu, Tarawa and many another Pacific beachhead during World War II. After the war, as senior correspondent in the Far East, he traveled thousands of miles on a roving assignment for TIME, following the news in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. He has almost completed an extracurricular activity-the official Marine aviation history of World...